Big lotteries
Sir, — Your report of a “big lottery” for the 1981 New Zealand Games shows again the confusion between the Minister of Internal Affairs and the organiser. The recent $2O lottery produced half a million dollars in tax, and if the cost of administration is little more • than for selling the same number of tickets in the “Jackpot” lotteries, reported as $35,000, there should be at least one and a quarter million dollars left for “charity.” The $lO lotteries have provided millions in tax, and charitable distributions
should ;have removed the necessity for our high-pow-ered, weekly cadging industry. Information on the costs of big lotteries,'a monopoly of Mr Kiddie’s ‘ company, are apparently top secret, but computerised systems, like the “Unique Number” scheme of the 1.H.C., are cheaper and more efficient. .My similar Commonwealth Games lottery scheme acrimoniously rejected by the Minister, must have threatened vested interests. — Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON, i August 11, 1980.
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